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Seneca Falls Convention
Susan B. Anthony participates in an anti-slavery convention in Seneca Falls, NY. Anthony had previously lived on a farm in Rochester, NY that had become a meeting place for anti-slavery activists like Frederick Douglas. Attending was a stride towards Anthony wanting gender equality, partially as a result of understanding that sex and race were both marginalizing political factors. Even the women attending these conventions were politically illegitimatized, although they were educated. -
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Susan Brownell Anthony: Events that shaped her advocacy for gender equality
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The Formation of the National Women's Suffrage Movement
Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Candy Stanton launched the National Woman's Suffrage Association (NWSA). The NWSA defied the 15th Amendment and advocated for ensuring more equal rights for women. The complete formation of the NWSA added fuel to Anthony's fire for eradicating sexism in politics, as her force in numbers began to rise and become a household conversation. -
'The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony, A Story of the Evolution of the Status of Women' is published
Ida Husted Parker and Matilda Joslin Gage work to record an account of Anthony's life stories. This allowed Anthony to establish a press bureau, which surged local and national press with articles on woman's suffrage. Considering Anthony had been teacher, the publication was important because it proved that learning and striving towards woman's suffrage had transcended generations, and Anthony was impacting how modern educated women wanted this change as much,if not more, than women had before. -
The 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
After a long a tumultuous struggle, the idea that people could not be denied the right to vote in United States elections based on sex became governmentally/politically valid. The amendment, also revered as the Susan B. Anthony amendment, granted women over 21 access to vote in elections. This event was a culmination of everything Anthony had been influenced to advocating for years: political equality for all sexes (National SBA Museum and House 2020). -
Citations: Written Portion
Hutchison, Harold. “This Week in History – Women's Suffrage 1869.” HistoryNet, HistoryNet, 24 May 2019, www.historynet.com/this-week-in-history-womens-suffrage-1869.htm#:~:text=On%20May%2015%2C%201869%2C%20Elizabeth,ensure%20equal%20rights%20for%20women.
“Timeline.” The Official Susan B. Anthony Museum & House, 2020, susanb.org/timeline-2/. -
Citaions: Images
https://www.mariettatimes.com/news/local-news/2020/08/womens-right-to-vote-excluded-black-women/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_American_Woman_Suffrage_Association
https://www.biography.com/news/seneca-falls-convention-leaders
https://www.oldprintbooks.com/product/22784/The-Life-and-Work-of-Susan-B-Anthony-Including-Public-Addressesher-Own-Lettersand-Many-from-Her-Contemporaries--During-Fifty-Years-IDA-Husted-Harper